Improvement in axle-skeins for vehicles



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Axle-Skein for Vehicles N0. IGO'QGZL Patented March16,1875.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN SNYDER, OF JOHNSONS CORNERS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF HISRIGHT TO JOSEPH H. MILLER, OF SAME PLACE.

.IMPROVEMENT IN AXLE-SKEINS FOR VEHICLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 160,964, dated March16, 1875 application filed December 24, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I,,BENJAMIN SNYDER, of Johnsons Corners, in the countyof Summit, State of Ohio, have invented certain Improvements inAxle-Skeins, of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates to certain improvements in thinible-skeinsespecially designed for use in lumber-wagons and'such class of heavyvehicles. My lIlVGIltlOll has for its object to provide a skein whichwill enable an inexperienced person to fit the skein or thimble to theaxle; and, to accomplish the abovementioned objects my inventionconsists in constructing the thimble-skein, at its lowerbearing-surface, with a flat straight seat for the under side of thewooden axle, and making said thiinble-skein gradually tapering from itsfront to its rear end, whereby the skein can be fitted to the. axle withgreat facility and by unskilled persons.

In the drawings, .Figure 1 is a central sectional view of my invention.Figs. 2 and 3 are cross-sections of the skein at the'lines w x and y grespectively.

Referring to Fig. l of the accompanying drawings, it will be seen thatthe thimbleskein is made of the same thickness at the outer end, but,instead of cutting away the wood of the axle to provide the requiredpitch for the wheel, I construct the skein with a corresponding gradualincrease in the thickness of the under side of the thimble to the baseof the hub at the point 0, thereby accomplishing the same result. whilepreserving the grain of the axle to the end of the skein, therebysecuring greater supporting power.

The lower bearing-surface or bottom of the thimble-skein, instead ofbeing curved, is con structed with a straight fiat surface, widest atthe inner end, and tapering to a point at the outer end, or at anintermediate point, there by enabling an inexperienced person to fit thethimble to the axle, as the axle, being planed true on its under side,rests upon the said flat bearing on the axle-skein, and affords anunerrin g guide to fitting the thimble.

On the lower face of the thimble, near the large end thereof, is a lug,D, having a bolthole to receive the end of the bolt which braces thebounds.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- A thimble-skein,tapering from its front to its rear end, and gradually increasing inthickness from its outer to its inner end, and having on its lower innerbearing surface a flat straight seat forthe under side of the woodenaxle, substantially as shown and described.

BENJAMIN SNYDER. Witnesses: JOHN H. CAMP ELL,

S. EDGERTON.

